Breaking into Climate| Career Panel

Jodie Hon

Innovation & STEM Manager, Iron & Earth

Jodie will be the moderator for this panel and is a current TISED M.Eng student set to graduate in December. Outside of school, Jodie is a Professional Engineer (P.Eng) with extensive experience in community-led climate initiatives and low-carbon energy solutions. She currently manages Iron & Earth’s Climate Career Portal and mentorship program, focusing on lowering barriers to the green economy. In addition, she is a Renewable Skills Instructor, and delivers training and educational programs to communities with a focus on renewable energy. Outside of Iron & Earth, she also provides consulting on renewable energy projects with a focus on rural, remote, and Indigenous communities. Jodie’s career is dedicated to advancing energy equity and climate justice with an intersectional and interdisciplinary lens.

Emilia Belliveau

Energy Transition Program Manager, Environmental Defence Canada

Emilia is the Energy Transition Program Manager for Environmental Defence, where she runs campaigns that push Canada towards transitioning away from fossil fuels. She has worked on climate and environmental justice issues since 2012, as a community organizer, academic researcher, campaigner with environmental non-profits, and as a senior policy analyst in the British Columbia (BC) Ministry of Energy. Before joining Environmental Defence, she worked with remote First Nations in BC to accelerate the transition off of diesel with community-led renewable energy projects and energy efficiency. Emilia holds a master’s degree from the University of Victoria (UVic), where her graduate studies in political ecology focused on the climate justice movement and fossil fuel divestment. At UVic she was involved with the Corporate Mapping Project, which investigated how corporate power is organized and exercised by the fossil fuel industry.

Genevieve Gill

Manager of Bilingual Programming and Communication

Geneviève's work with Learning for a Sustainable Future sits at the intersection of climate change and education. Her role as their Bilingual Programs and Communications Manager looks to support youth in building autonomy and skills for climate action–driven projects and learning, to help teachers integrate climate change into their curriculum and to transform school culture to centre sustainability. In this role, she has led countless conferences for youth and overseen professional development workshops for teachers and school system leaders. She has helped enrich LSF’s programming with French-speaking communities across Canada. While her work focuses specifically on the Canadian school system, her interests extend to urban planning and design, as well as the role of art in building sustainable communities. Geneviève holds a Master’s degree in biomechanical engineering research from McGill University, where she also completed a Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology.

Anna Dove

Transportation Planning Analyst, Egis

Anna Dove-McFalls is a Transportation Planning Analyst at Egis and a Candidate to the Engineering Profession (CEP) in Québec. She holds a Master of Engineering in Sustainability and Design (2025) and a Bachelor of Civil Engineering (2024) from McGill University. Anna is passionate about advancing rail and urban transit systems to support a sustainable and accessible future, motivated by projects that bring together transportation planning and engineering.

Since joining Egis, she has contributed to major infrastructure projects, including the Hamilton Light Rail Transit Project, the Pearson Airport expansion, and the Bruce Power nuclear power plant expansion. Anna supports the planning and delivery of these major projects through multimodal transportation modelling, planning, and operational analysis.

In addition to her consulting experience, Anna has led transportation research initiatives focused on high-speed rail accessibility, public transit infrastructure impacts, and modal shift analysis. She has also served as a teaching assistant for university-level courses in transportation systems and technical design.

Stephen Thomas

Clean Energy Manager, David Suzuki Foundation

Stephen Thomas is a campaigner, policy analyst and engineer. Throughout his work, Stephen centres relationships and builds coalitions to strengthen collective action toward climate justice.

He is currently the Clean Energy Manager with the David Suzuki Foundation, where he leads a staff team, volunteer network and coalition of allied organizations. This work calls for 100 per cent clean electricity in Canada, and energy justice for communities, workers and the Indigenous nations on whose lands all energy projects are built. He is also the Vice-Chair of the Board for Climate Action Network Canada.

While working as the Energy Campaign Coordinator for the Ecology Action Centre, Stephen led campaigns for climate and energy justice that were rooted in place, in unceded Mi’kmaq territory. He spent years learning from and supporting Mi’kmaq grassroots grandmothers in their struggle to defend the Shubenacadie River against fossil fuel projects. Stephen has volunteered for many grassroots climate justice campaigns and attended COP21 as part of the Canadian Youth Delegation.

Stephen’s experience working in the renewable energy sector in Canada supported over 200MW of community-led renewable energy projects, as well as energy efficiency and building retrofit projects.

Stephen is a settler, originally from unceded Mi’kmaq territory in Nova Scotia. He now lives on the unceded territories of the Kanien’kehà:ka, in Montréal, Québec with his partner. Stephen is a proud member of his union local - SEPB 574.